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MILLINGTON, LIMITED.
MR
ANNOUNCEMENT.
A. L. 3. BELL has been ap
pointed AGENT for the above Firma Hora Kone from 18 SEPTEMBER.
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He will be prepared to interview lients by Far East, ver Appointment on any Question
tising Campaigns prepared for the whole of SourH CHINA in Chinese and English. Estimated given Free of Cost against all bona fide Enquiries.
EXCHANGE BUILDING, HOWG Koxa, BTH FLOOR
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
INTIMATIONS.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have rositad
Instructions
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TO SILL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, THE 10TE, 11TH
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AND 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1929,
AM
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONB
of the Bala by Publia Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 9TE DAY of SEPTEMBER 1929, at 3 r.. at tha Offices of the Public Works Department, b Order of Eis EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of Tenawal at a Orown Best to be lized by the Surveyor of His Majesty ta3 KING, for one farther term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale
Registry No
Locality.
No. 291b, ·
Inland Lot
Eaxt of Inland Lot No. 2344, Wong
Nei Chung.
Boundary.
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Measure-
meate
As per
anle plan.
a. Se
Contents in
Square feet
Annal
Rental
* Opret Price. ;
About
1,200
By
PUBLIC AUCTION.
24
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H.M. NAVAL YARD, Horo Koxo,
AND AT KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT, COMMENCING EACH DAY AT 9,30 AM.
WITH AN INTERVAL From 19 NOON to 1.30 F.M. OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES,
40... dc.
Comprising:
Anchors, Chain Cable Gear, Forges. Firehearth. Ships' Bells, Iran Reel. Davits, Air Purifying
Hapt
Catter. Cars, Whaler, Dinghy, Old Battery Flat Electrical and Wireless Telegraph Fittings Glycerine, Old Electric Cable, Bakery Oren, Iron Mattresses and Bedstends, Water Closet Pan, Hydraulic Jacks, Carpets, Rugs, Tables, Ios Cheats, Chairs, Derks, Orsa
dental Stores, Cooking Pots Water Сада, New Carpet
THE 1 HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929.
Mtting, Fold-up Old Stenli
Lavatories, Thermometers Old Fail, Old Twill Old Lignum
Cartsins, Overcases,
um Vitae. Blankets, Ungiased Tiles, fatallic Hoses, Old Cordage, Old Cair Hats, Ola India Babber. Old Rags 155 and
Dexine,
Glass Pixte, Tarred Rage, Old Woolles Bags, Old Cork, Cocoa-Rut Matting Asbestos Pating. 014. Iron Drams, New Canvas Gattings. Old Iron and Steel, Old Scrap Brass, Copper, Lead. Zinc, Metals of Sorts, Brass and Dax Metal Borings, Zinc Bottoms and Zino
Autor,
Toben, Iron Blocks, Lamps, Lanieras, Candle Tuben, Gauges Old Steel Plates Olas
Steel
of Bhotele
OK Wire Rope
Che Glass, Die Mineral Oil and Oil Feel, tings,
Dirty
Watches, Binoculara, Clocks, Compasses, Air Pipes and Breast Ropes, Photo-
And
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS graphic Materials, Fireword. Old Steel
40014
Oil PREP of the Bale by Public Auction to Motors of Borts, Ebonite
Pump,
C Old Electr be bald 150 MONDAT, the Fans, Lamp Endr, Gymnastics Gen DAY of SEPTEMBER 1929, at Indicators Boilers,
Offices of 7.M. at the
the Machine Cordage Machine, Lathes,
8
Working
Public Works Department, by Order | Denglas Engines, Binusele, Waterproof of HIS EXCELLENT THE COTTEROL, Shala, Etc. Ets. of One Lot of OROWN LAND ai Shamshuipo, in the Colony
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for a term of 75 years, dom- mencing from 1st July, 1888, with the option of renewal at Crown Rant to se fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY ras Kiss, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
| No, of Sale.:
Registry No.
Locality.
New Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 1278,
Ki Lang Street het
and Boundary Street.
Boundary
Mansuro-
meats.
X. & 2.W.
ft. ft."
A per
sale plan
Also lying in FLEET AIR ARM RESERVE STORE, H.M. NAVAL DEPOT, KOWLOON-Old Fabrio. Old Clothing, Waterproof Coats, Old Firing Clothing, Old Sparking Plugs, Old Rubber, Old Aluminium, Engine Steel,
DR. SCHOLL'S
CORRECTIVE
FOOT
APPLIANCES
NOW
ON
SALE
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
Old Brass Old Copper, Old Lead 1929 Edition
Phosphor Bronze, Old Fabric, Steel, Tin. Old Tanks, Old Airscrews, Old Aoro Wheels, Packing Cases, Assorted Drums g(Containers), Etc., Etc.
About
Contents in
46 6,563
Annusi Bquare feet.
Rental.
Upset Price,
"PEAK MANSIONS."
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5,845
ITUATED within Two Minutes' Walk from the Tram Station and erlooking the Southern Side of the Island. Ready for Occupation.
Fire-Roomed and Six-Roomeả APARTMENTS
LOTS MAY BE INSPECTED ON MONDAY, 9rn SEPTEMBER, 1929.
ALSO SALE OF.
OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES AT KOWLOON.or
FRIDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER,
Comprising: Serge, Flannel, Clothing Remnanta, Manufactured Pipe Tobacco (1,000 lbs.), Bundry Articles of Mess and
OF THE
DIRECTORY
AND
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, före cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5 p.m.,
stated.com
later.
The Medical Officer; of Health's report for the week ending August 31 only records four cases of enterie (three fatal) and one influenza fatality.
NAVAL OFFICER'S ESTATE.
LT.COMDR. MACDONALD "
OF H.M.S. WRYNECK.
Three cases of enteric, one British and two Chinese were reported on Tuesday. On Monday, the Medical FOUR LAKHS IN THE COLONT. Officer Health reports, one Chinese case of plague and one plague in- fected rat were reported. There Was also A
of small-pox (Chinese).
calc
apite of the enormous increase in motor traffic, the number of street accidents last year was only 888, as compared with 611 in 1097; in. both years fatal accidents numbered 30. Last year 1,918 persons wore A weak anticyclone extends to passed as motor`drívers, as againat the north-east of the Bonins. The typhoon is about 950 miles south 650 the previous year; public of Pratas, moving W.N.W. or N.W vehicles passed as fit for use num
Local Forecast:-N.E. moderate, freshening, cloudy, rain eso in 1927; those examined and winds, bored 1,408 last year, compared with
Property in the Colony worth found unfit for public use numbered MANILA, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.
$440,000 and net personal estate A cyclone or typhoon in reported and 110 respectively. Sixty-nine
in England amounting to £3,519,7.11. W. of northern Lazon more than 100 miles distant, moving W.N.W.ivers had their licences suspend-
was left by Lieut-Commander or N.W.
cd, as against 13 in 1997, and in
Capt. Holland, who has been Henry Crawford Macdonald," R., both years four licences were can-carrying out the duties of Marine formerly of H.M.S. Wryneck, and
The number of public Superintendant in Hong Kong for of 51, Queen's Gate, South Ken jinriksha decreased last year from the C.P.R. in the absence of Capt. sington. Death is believed to have 1,717 to 1,638; and private vehicles Davidson, who has been on leave, occurred on or since October 18, from 630 to 863-4 slow but steady sailed in the Empress of Asin for 1928, at a place unknown while deeling. In 1994 there were 1,025 Vancouver yesterday. Capt. David attempting Aight ACTORS the. jinriksha and 1,486 private vehicles.son has resumed his former duties Atlantic from Newfoundland "to Public chairs last year, numbered in Hong Kong.
London, 610, as in the previous year, while private chairs decreased from 121
19.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929.
THE HONG KONG POLICE.
THERE are probably few places in the world where the palice author- ities have auch wide and varied. datics as are discharged by them
celled.
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calendar month.. In the other event his sister-in-law, Mrs. Grace March, is appointed executrix and trustee, also guardian of his infant child.
Probate of will in respect of the The Hong Kong Amusements | local property has been granted to to 100. Four years ago there were Limited inform us that they have his wife, Olive Macdonald, in case 696 public and 101 private chairs in,been successful in engaging she survives him not less than one the Colony-and 419 public and 837 musical director of exceptional private cars. Last year there were ability, namely Mr. M. R. Baka- 481 public and 1,148 private cars leinikoff formerly of the Shanghai in the Colony. The substitution Municipal Orchestra, who takes of mechanical for man power in over the duties of conductor to-day methods of transport proceeds at the Queen's Theatre. Two more steadily, but it is unlikely that the Russian violinists have also been chair will disappear as quickly as engaged. its two-wheeled rival; chair coolies can get to places quite inaccessible
We have received: from Mr. C.
of
Chinese Marchants' Estate. Cheng Wing Him, macy aliases, a retired merchant of 59, Main Street, Aberdeen, left local estate worth $16,900.. He died in May last at the age of 62, leaving Shi, who has been granted probate
in this Calony. Apart from theby jinriksha or motor, and while W. Jeffries, F.R.A.S., Chief Assist everything to his wife, Cheng Wong
customary routine work necciated people live in such dizzy, retreats with the maintenance of law and and mountain fastnesses there will be a demand for chaire in which order in the community, the police
to be carried thither. in Hong Kong have a very large number of other and peculiar res ponsibilities. They have to be on
The Captain Superintendent of Police states in his report that the
(900 men) during last year was
against them was 121, as against
ant at the Royal Observatory. Hong Kong, a copy of the meteorological records of the Colony from 1884 to 1923 This booklet, published at sixty cents, contains a mass of in- formative material for those inter- ested in weather and climatic con-
of the will.
Looking Back 25 Years.
The Royal Engineers hold the distinction of playing the first meter readings, details of rainfall, Juniors V. Seniors at Happy on Saturday afternoon.
the alert to prevent illicit tram conduct of the European contingentditions. Barometer and thermo- cricket match of the season." It was in drugs, arms, and ammunition; good. The total number of reports hours of bright sunshine, humidity. Valley their criminal clients includo pirates, bandits, and kidnappers; 19 the previous year. The conduct wind direction and velocity-all They are to be admired for their they maintain A amall fleet of
of the Indian contingent (769 men) these details are to be found in the pluck, as the ground was so soppy, „ armed vessels and a small army of
book, which mast have cost Mr. after the rains, that water covered was fair, there being 1,188 reports Jeffries very many hours of patient the toecaps of the fielders' boots. special guards armed with Lewisast year compared with 779 in 1927. guns, rifles, and revolvers; they The Chinese contingent (771 men)
labour."
The Juniors went in first, but prov battle against malaria-carrying mosquitoes; they maintain a Street Boys' Club, and they control the fire-brigade of the Colony. A formidable yet still incompleta-- list of public duties to perform, and the annual report for 1929 of the Captain Superintendent "of Police gives some very interesting details of the manner in which these duties are discharged by a force composed of Europeans, Chinese,
and Indians.
were:-
JUNIORS. Rodaway, b Duke Thisleton, e Glassbrook,
Dixon Burley, b Dukes
0
B
is divided in two sections. Сал-
The Shun pan says that, before theed no match for the Seniors. Secres tonese and Wei-hai-wei, and the be severance of Sino-Soviet reiations, baviour of both is described as fair,
more than 30 Chinese merchantmen as is the conduct of the Chinese were chartered by the Soviet Com- section of the Water Police (20 mereial Fleet Co. for the trans men). The conduct of the European portation of Soviet goods to China police officers in the New Territories and that, since the time when the
described as (North) is
and of the Cantonese "satisfac good," that of the Indians "good,"
tory."
very
rupture of the Sino-Soviet relations
meat, the charter period of some! was declared by the Soviet Govern- We note that nothing is of these Chinese merchantmen, ex- said in the report on the fire-pired. Instead of returning them, brigade about the conduct of the the Soviet authorities in Vladivos There was less crime in the Colony during 1928 than in the preceding familiar phrases. No difficulty officers detained them until recent- men in that force, but we find some to have seized these ships and, despite the vigorous protests of the year, but the proportion of serious was experienced in obtaining sufly when, following vigorous pro- offences was larger. The total num-ficient recruits during the gent, but tests, they agreed to their release ber of cases reported to the police the brigade is still slightly short of Shuapan says that about ten of from the end of this month. The in 1929 was 19,610 as against 24,444 its full numbers owing to the large these ships are expected to arrive
Shanghai from
CHRONICLE in 1927, but serious offences totalled
number of resignations." During 3,201-88 compared with 4,553 the 1927, aut of an establishment of 120 previous year, mainly attributable
men, there were 31, resignations, 21 to increased cases of larceny, though dismissals, and 14 desertions-n there were four more murders in total "casualty
The 67th Annual Issue
OF THE
list of 66more
Table Gear, including Electro Plate Directory and Chronicles than in the year preceding. than 50 per cent. of the authorised
Cutlery, Hardware and Table Linen.
Also Condemned Provisions for Poultry Feeding, &c.
TIRMS. or Bazz-A detailed in Catalogne.
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
By Appointment Auctioneers
to the Admiralty. Hong Kong, 19th Aug., 1929, (8262
with all Modern Conveniences Drying COMPREHENSIVE AND COM
Rooms and Out-kouses, Two Lifts.-
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PRIVATE GARAGES
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"HONG KONG WEEKLY
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with which is incorporated
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TEE TREATY FORTS OF
Although there were more larcenies strength-which prompts us to re. reported, however, the estimated peat a still unanswered query: what value of the property was con- is wrong with the fire-brigade? siderably Icsa-8176,020, as against CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. 8612,203 in 1927, the average for the CHINA, STAM, STRAITS. last years being $531,880. Fifteen SETTLEMENTS, MALAY per cent. of the property stolen last STATES, NETHERLANDS year was recovered, as against 13 INDIA, BORNEO. THE per cent. restored the previous year. PHILIPPINES, Etc.
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as Burnames in strict slphabe
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AND
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Vladivostok
early next month, but the rest are not expected to return until their charter period expire.
Meldrum, run out............
Kinnear, e Stephena, b. Dukes 1 Price, e Dukes, b Dixon Nettleton, Dixon, b Dukes Patker, Dukes
Beard, e Dukes, b Dixon, Davis, Dixon Lyons, not out
Total
BENICES.
Tillman, not out Glassbrook, c Beard, b Net-
tleton Dixon, e Parker, b Meldrum Joues, c Kinner, b Nettleton Smith, Kinnear.............. Taylor, not out
18.
Total (for 4 wickets) ... 36 Saunders, Dukes, Hunt, Stephens, and Green did not bat,-Hong Kong Daily Prem, September 5,
1004.
Collecting dialects is the goal of two Chicago men at work in differ- ent continents. W. D. Hambley, leader of the Frederick H. Rawson- Looking Back 50 Years. Field Museum Expedition to West Tong Long Địn r. Poon Ka Shin Africa, recently reported that he is and others, 8500.-This was the case using the dictaphone to record sam-
ples of the primitive speech of in which the plaintiff kued the part- natives in Angola. It took some rers in a firm as guarantory of a persuasion, he wrote, to convince
them that the phonographie ma promissory note on which the chop. chine is a harmless as the camera. of the firm had been placed. Gerhardt Laven,, the other dialect Mr. Brereton, for the defendants, gatherer, is a graduate student of
with him.
A report made to the police by Piracies outside Bias Bay numbered Messrs. Sennet Feres, jewellers, the University of Chicago, and has argued that the chop of a Chinese- only 18 last year as compared with York Building, states that between just left for Australia to make an firm was equivalent to the signa- analysis of the language and songs ture of an English firm, and that.. 32 in 1927, while three ships were 2.15 and 3.30 p.m. yesterday some of the Australian bushmen." The
National taken to Bias Bay by pirates last person stole from the counter of Australian
As a partner in an English firm Research year, as compared with dve in 1927, the shop three gold wrist watches Council is financing the work. Mr. could not bind the other partners. Laves taking recording apparatus except in the ordinary course of People were more absent-minded worth $100.
business, neither could a partner in last year than they were in 1927,
a Chinese Erm bind the other part- A public motor-car, No. 175,
rers by the use of the firm's chop judging from the fact that articles collided with Hong Kong Hotel
Mails for London,
in such transactions as that forin- reported last to the pelice numbered 'bus No. 622 at the junction of iate the emergency arrangements To allow them to do so, he said, Business-men will greatly appreing the subject for the present case. 357 as compared with 343. The Garden Road and Queen's Road in made by the Postmaster-General for would be to open the deer to any value of this lost property, how the afternoon yesterday, damaging sending mail to London by air amount of fraud. Mr. Dennys, for
Was enormously higher the mudguards of the 'bus. No one
during the continuance of the Sino- the plaintiff, admitted that if they 233,820, as against $18,125. The was injured.
Russian dispute over the Chinese were in England, and the plaintiff Eastern Railway: A saving of six was not in a position to prove that value of the mislaid property ro-
days as compared with the Suez- the money was borrowed for the use covered was practically the same for commit suicide in the harbour prov-
Another attempt by a woman to Marseilles route is usually effected, of the firm, he would be out of both years-in the neighbourhood of ed unsuccessful yesterday.
but is not guaranteed. The efforts court. He put it, however, that the She of the local postal authorities to present case was different from any 81,460. Evidently the old rule of jumped from a Yaumati ferry expedite the delivery of London that could occur in England, as "Endinga is keepings" is widely Kong side. The crew of a fishing would it not be possible to send way of doing business from that launch while crossing to the Hong mail are most commendable, but the Chinese had a totally different observed in Hong Kong. Other Loat rescued her and she was hand letters vid Siberia from Hong pursued in. England. Instead of gruesome findings which came to the ed over to the police, who sent her Kong by sending thera to Japan using signatures they use a chop, notice of the police were bodies of to the Government Civil Hospital.
for transport vid Vladivostok ? and that chop was placed in the persons unknown-358 in Victoria,
Mails are reaching Japan from hands of the managing partner or At the Central Magistraey yester Europe vid Siberia, and are being manager, who had far greater dis 1,077 in Kowloon, and others clae- day morning, Mr. Hamilton an- dispatched thither zid Vladivostok, cretion allowed him in the use of where making a total of 1,660, announced that in view of the great This service would not be very much it than any member of a firm in compared with 1,317 dead bodies beat he was prepared to permit longer for Hong Kong mail than England had in the use of the firm's police officers and civilians in mufti the Shanghai-Harbin route now signature. It had always been re- during 1927. found in the streets and harbour to appear with the shirt open suspended, and would certainly be cognized for hundreds of years that at the neck provided that a faster and more frequent than the when the chop of a firm had been It is intersting to learn that birt with an attached collar and Suez service. The air-mail certain-put to a paper without fraud it u white coat were" worn. This ly provides an opportunity, to get bound the frio, and none of the out of 2,245 weights and measures privilege is to Isat till September important letters to London more partners ever contested it or said examined last year, only 31 were 2C. Mr. Hamilton took advantage quickly than by the ordinary routes it had been improperly used. His found inaccurate, and convictions of it himself, sitting in a white coat row, available, but another service Lordship said he would reserve The Magistrate through Japan would be most wel-judgment, and give it on Tuesday. and tennis shirt. were secured in all the 17. cases was not wearing a blue blazer as come until the Chinese Eastern next at half-past-ten-Hong Kong brought before the magistrates. In one local newspaper stated.
Railway problem is disposed of. Daily Press, September 5, 1870.
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